{"id":28057,"date":"2021-10-06T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=28057"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:10:42","slug":"wednesday-reflection-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Midweek Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>6th October 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I wonder if you looked at this week\u2019s feasts if you guessed my topic.\u00a0 Monday, St Francis of Assisi, yesterday, St Faustina, Thursday, Our Lady of the Rosary.\u00a0 Actually, none of these, tempting as they may be.\u00a0 Instead I have wanted to share a word or two about St Bruno whose feast today ranks as the lowest form of celebration, namely, an optional memorial.\u00a0 That is to say, you don\u2019t need to celebrate it at all.\u00a0 Two years ago I celebrated my Golden Jubilee at St Hugh\u2019s Charterhouse\u2026the Carthusian Monastery in the south of England.\u00a0 At the end of the week of silent prayer and solitude and of long hours during the night singing the psalms with the monks, the Prior left a present for me at my door.\u00a0 It was a copy of Cardinal Sarah\u2019s book, The Power of Silence and\u2026..a quarter bottle of green Chartreuse.\u00a0 I\u00a0 still have\u2026.the book!<\/p>\n<p>Bruno was born in Cologne 33 years before the Battle of Hastings and lived to be 68 years of age.\u00a0 He was Chancellor of the Diocese of Reims under an under-whelming bishop who was eventually deposed by the Pope.\u00a0 Bruno managed not to be elected bishop and took himself off, eventually, with six companions, founding the first Carthusian Monastery at in the mountains outside of Grenoble.\u00a0 Within a few years, one of his former pupils was elected as Pope Urban II who sought his help and once more he was offered a bishopric.\u00a0 But that was not his vocation.\u00a0 Instead, he founded a new Charterhouse at Calabria where he lived in deep retreat, poverty and intense prayer and study.\u00a0 His spiritual sons and daughters continue to do so today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midweek Reflection 6th October 2021 \u00a0I wonder if you looked at this week\u2019s feasts if you guessed my topic.\u00a0 Monday, St Francis of Assisi, yesterday, St Faustina, Thursday, Our Lady of the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-54\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28059,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28057\/revisions\/28059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}